Angry in the Great White North

From My Blahg:

Anyway, I emailed Ajay Virmani this morning and alerted him to the vicious smearing of his name taking place on the internet. You should all do the same whenever you come across one of these diseased conservatives smearing someone for no good reason. If we don’t fight back against this type of nonsense it will only embolden these odious pricks to continue doing it. And who knows, maybe a few lawsuits will smarten them up.

Apparently I was the source of the smear. What smear? Here is a listing of the facts:

• Ajay Virmani is a supporter of the Liberals (confirmed by main stream media sources and through a search of the Elections Canada political donations database)
• Cargojet is leasing a 727 to the Liberals, something that has been criticized by the main stream media
• Cargojet shares are available in an income trust fund
• Some income trust funds, but only some, have been noted widely in the main stream media as having been subject to intense trading in the hours ahead of the Ralph Goodale income trust taxation announcment, suggesting a leak, also reported in the main stream media
• A leak has been alleged in the main stream media regarding the seniors' advocacy fund CARP
• Cargojet was subject to a significant surge in trading immediately ahead of the announcement (via many public sources)
• The value of Cargojet stock suffered in the weeks of uncertainty preceding the Goodale announcement (main stream media and apparent from stock information)
• Ajay Virmani was in discussions with Ralph Goodale concerning the future of income trust funds, hoping to avert a taxation change (the main stream media quoting Virmani himself)

Nowhere in my post do I allege that Ajay Virmani engaged in the trading. In fact, I can find no specific information about who was doing the suspicious trading.

As best as I can tell, I say nothing negative about Virmani at all. The point was that two income trust funds (Cargojet and Medisys) show the strange trading patterns, and both have significant links to the current government.

But we can add some more items to my list of facts.

• Robert McLelland is the equivalent of a schoolyard snitch, and frankly can't even be bothered to snitch based on the facts.
• Comparing the two posts, it is clear only one of us is stooping to name calling and calling for harm to be done to someone.
• McLelland can't spell ("combatants", not "combatents").

At least Warren Kinsella knows to sue based on real libel, not on imagined slights.